In The Wake Of The Wake

Author : Christina Sharpe
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373459
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Wake written by Christina Sharpe and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness—Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, and she delineates what survives despite such insistent violence and negation. Initiating and describing a theory and method of reading the metaphors and materiality of "the wake," "the ship," "the hold," and "the weather," Sharpe shows how the sign of the slave ship marks and haunts contemporary Black life in the diaspora and how the specter of the hold produces conditions of containment, regulation, and punishment, but also something in excess of them. In the weather, Sharpe situates anti-Blackness and white supremacy as the total climate that produces premature Black death as normative. Formulating the wake and "wake work" as sites of artistic production, resistance, consciousness, and possibility for living in diaspora, In the Wake offers a way forward.

Author : Paul Kingsnorth
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979076
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wake written by Paul Kingsnorth and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work that is as disturbing as it is empathetic, as beautiful as it is riveting." —Eimear McBride, New Statesman In the aftermath of the Norman Invasion of 1066, William the Conqueror was uncompromising and brutal. English society was broken apart, its systems turned on their head. What is little known is that a fractured network of guerrilla fighters took up arms against the French occupiers. In The Wake, a postapocalyptic novel set a thousand years in the past, Paul Kingsnorth brings this dire scenario back to us through the eyes of the unforgettable Buccmaster, a proud landowner bearing witness to the end of his world. Accompanied by a band of like-minded men, Buccmaster is determined to seek revenge on the invaders. But as the men travel across the scorched English landscape, Buccmaster becomes increasingly unhinged by the immensity of his loss, and their path forward becomes increasingly unclear. Written in what the author describes as "a shadow tongue"—a version of Old English updated so as to be understandable to the modern reader—The Wake renders the inner life of an Anglo-Saxon man with an accuracy and immediacy rare in historical fiction. To enter Buccmaster's world is to feel powerfully the sheer strangeness of the past. A tale of lost gods and haunted visions, The Wake is both a sensational, gripping story and a major literary achievement.

Author : James S. Atherton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758109040
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Books at the Wake written by James S. Atherton and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Per Petterson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312427047
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Wake written by Per Petterson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Norwegian Arvid Jansen, a man who finally finds the strength to confront and accept the disasters of his life.

Author : Ayesha Siddiqi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110859770X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Wake of Disaster written by Ayesha Siddiqi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the state's responsibility to its people in the aftermath of a natural hazard based disaster? The book sets out to address this seemingly simple question, after large scale floods devastated Pakistan in 2010 and then again in 2011. Along the way it delves into rich detail about people's everday encounters with the state in Pakistan, uncovers postcolonial discourses on rights of citizenship and dispels mainstream understanding of Islamist groups as presenting an alternative development paradigm to the state. Based on detailed ethnographic fieldwork, In the Wake of the Disaster forces the reader to look beyond narratives of Pakistan as the perennial 'failing state' falling victim to an imminent 'Islamist takeover'. The book shifts the conversation from hysteria and sensationalism surrounding Pakistan to the everyday. In doing so it transforms our understanding of contemporary disasters.

Author : Andrew F. Lang
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807167088
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Wake of War written by Andrew F. Lang and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War era marked the dawn of American wars of military occupation, inaugurating a tradition that persisted through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and that continues to the present. In the Wake of War traces how volunteer and even professional soldiers found themselves tasked with the unprecedented project of wartime and peacetime military occupation, initiating a national debate about the changing nature of American military practice that continued into Reconstruction. In the Mexican-American War and the Civil War, citizen-soldiers confronted the complicated challenges of invading, occupying, and subduing hostile peoples and nations. Drawing on firsthand accounts from soldiers in United States occupation forces, Andrew F. Lang shows that many white volunteers equated their martial responsibilities with those of standing armies, which were viewed as corrupting institutions hostile to the republican military ethos. With the advent of emancipation came the enlistment of African American troops into Union armies, facilitating an extraordinary change in how provisional soldiers interpreted military occupation. Black soldiers, many of whom had been formerly enslaved, garrisoned regions defeated by Union armies and embraced occupation as a tool for destabilizing the South’s long-standing racial hierarchy. Ultimately, Lang argues, traditional fears about the army’s role in peacetime society, grounded in suspicions of standing military forces and heated by a growing ambivalence about racial equality, governed the trials of Reconstruction. Focusing on how U.S. soldiers—white and black, volunteer and regular—enacted and critiqued their unprecedented duties behind the lines during the Civil War era, In the Wake of War reveals the dynamic, often problematic conditions of military occupation.

Author : Jonathan D. Moreno
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262633024
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Wake of Terror written by Jonathan D. Moreno and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timely and provocative essays on bioethical questions brought to the forefront by the bioterrorist threat.

Author : Christina Sharpe
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822345916
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monstrous Intimacies written by Christina Sharpe and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that address those “monstrous intimacies” and their repetition as constitutive of post-slavery subjectivity. Her illuminating readings juxtapose Frederick Douglass’s narrative of witnessing the brutal beating of his Aunt Hester with Essie Mae Washington-Williams’s declaration of freedom in Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond, as well as the “generational genital fantasies” depicted in Gayl Jones’s novel Corregidora with a firsthand account of such “monstrous intimacies” in the journals of an antebellum South Carolina senator, slaveholder, and vocal critic of miscegenation. Sharpe explores the South African–born writer Bessie Head’s novel Maru—about race, power, and liberation in Botswana—in light of the history of the KhoiSan woman Saartje Baartman, who was displayed in Europe as the “Hottentot Venus” in the nineteenth century. Reading Isaac Julien’s film The Attendant, Sharpe takes up issues of representation, slavery, and the sadomasochism of everyday black life. Her powerful meditation on intimacy, subjection, and subjectivity culminates in an analysis of Kara Walker’s black silhouettes, and the critiques leveled against both the silhouettes and the artist.

Author : Kenneth E. Slack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Wake of the Spray written by Kenneth E. Slack and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Hager
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caught in the Wake written by Michael Hager and published by . This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the unbearably hot and sticky fall of 2007, Diane Diamante's uncontrollable temper ran away from her...and it was her mother Margaret who paid the ultimate price for her daughter's insane rage.Caught in the Wake is the story of the Diamante family's rise and their tragic fall. Yet Caught in the Wake is also a triumph that will leave the reader with a hope that where tragedy has struck healing can take hold. The goal in writing this story is not merely to document abuse and negligent denial, but to assure that others in Patrick's family, as well as members of any family, will not become ensnared by the destructive behavior of their loved ones, to not get Caught in the Wake.